Idichakka Thoran | Raw Jackfruit Recipe

Idichakka thoran is prepared using the Tender jackfruit, its one of the seasonal product in south side. amma make many varieties using this tender jackfruit, thoran is kerala special recipe, it has lots of flavors and spices. Thoran refers to any kind of dry curry prepared using coconut, fennel/cumin and other spices along with shallots. This idichakka thoran is smilar to other thoran recipes i have in this website. beginning of the season you get tender jackfruit, you can try n no of recipes , later stage it grows bigger, and become a addict able sweet fruit , using that fruit you can make chakka pradhaman, elai adai, chakka vratti etc…

Cutting the Jackfruit is tedious work, you need patience and cut knife, before starting spread oil over your palm and knife, in my method, i have no patience to peel and chop, so i peeled the outer part, and cubed the tender jackfruit and boiled and chopped. this way i feel its kind of easy job even though peeling is tough. you can use other way of method too. The tender jackfruit will not have seed, so you can chop it easily. My amma version of making simple fry is different i have also shoot it, i will be posting it next well. try this thoran and give me the feed back.

you need buttermilk or curd to keep the peeled raw Jackfruit for boiling .

For vegan option it can be avoided, you can boil it in the water itself,

Preparation :

Take the Raw Jackfruit, cut in to two halves and remove the outer part, using the knife , before that grease the knife completely with oil , if needed cut in to four halves, then cut in to medium cubes, keep those in the buttermilk water. pressure cook the raw jackfruit for 4 whistles. once the steam gone, open the lid, strain the water. It can be chopped as such,

but i grind the cubes in the mixie just pulse it one round. enough , do not mash it .

Mean while grind the ingredients give under ” to grind”, then mixie the masala and chopped jackfruit. mix well.

Then heat the kadai, add the oil once hot add the mustard seeds once cracked add the fennel and urad dal saute for a minute then add the curry leaves, stir well now add the jackfruit, give a gentle stir fry, since jackfruit already cooked, it takes less than 15 minutes.

Once cooked off the flame, serve it with Hot rice, kuzhambu. i love to mix it directly , it was good.

Idichakka thoran is a perfect side dish for south indian thali, it is prepared using raw jackfruit.

Author: AparnaRajeshKumar

Recipe type: Side dish for Rice

Cuisine: Indian - kerala cuisine

Serves: 3

Ingredients

Ingredients:

Raw jackfruit - 1½ cup (peeled boiled chopped - read on procedure )

Oil - 1 tbsp ( i prefer coconut oil )

mustard seeds - 1 tsp

urad dal - 1 tbsp

green chilly - 2 nos

Curry leaves - few for tempering

salt - as required

To grind :

Coconut - ½ cup shredded

shallots - 7 medium size

red chilly - 3 nos (adjust as per spicy taste)

fennel - 2 tsp

Garlic - 2 medium size

Instructions

Take the Raw Jackfruit, cut in to two halves and remove the outer part, using the knife , before that grease the knife completely with oil , if needed cut in to four halves, then cut in to medium cubes, keep those in the buttermilk water. pressure cook the raw jackfruit for 4 whistles. once the steam gone, open the lid, strain the water. It can be chopped as such, but i grind the cubes in the mixie just pulse it one round. enough , do not mash it .

Mean while grind the ingredients give under " to grind", then mixie the masala and chopped jackfruit. mix well.

Then heat the kadai, add the oil once hot add the mustard seeds once cracked add the fennel and urad dal saute for a minute then add the curry leaves, stir well now add the jackfruit, give a gentle stir fry, since jackfruit already cooked, it takes less than 15 minutes.

Once cooked off the flame, serve it with Hot rice, kuzhambu. i love to mix it directly , it was good.

Notes

Notes:

Cleaning the raw jackfruit is time consuming, so plan your work accordingly. If you do not want to pulse it in the mixie you can evenly chop the boiled jacfruit too. instead of boiling directly, you can chop and boil too, i have no patience, so i have used the directly boiling method. While cutting make sure you cover the surface with paper otherwise there will be a strain in the floor. While grinding shallots must, which brings the lot of flavors. Coconut oil gives lots of flavors. once you cubed or chopped the tender jackfruit, add it to the butter milk water for boiling, else the color change. If you do not have butter milk, you can always add 2 tbsp of curd to the 1 cup of water . Suggestion :

Instead of fennel you can also try with cumin seeds you can try to add chopped onion before you add the jackfruit, instead of grinding it in the masala. if you do not like coconut oil you can try with normal oil too.

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